INDIAN  NOTES 
AND  MONOGRAPHS 


A  SERIES  OF  PUBLICA- 
TIONS RELATING  TO  THE 
AMERICAN  ABORIGINES 


TWO  ANTLER  SPOONS  FROM 
ONTARIO 

BY 

ALANSON  SKINNER 


NEW  YORK 

MUSEUM  OF  THE  AMERICAN  INDIAN 

HEYE  POUNDATION 

1920 


LIBRARY 


UNlV?f 

SAN 


Publications  of  the  Museum  of  the 
American  Indian,  Heye  Foundation 


THE   GEORGE   G.  HEYE  EXPEDITION 
CONTRIBUTIONS  TO  SOUTH  AMER- 
ICAN ARCHAEOLOGY 
Vol.1 

The  Antiquities  of  Manabi,  Ecuador:  A  Pre- 
liminary Report.  By  Marshall  H.  Saville. 
1907.  $25.00. 

Vol.2 

The  Antiquities  of  Manabi,  Ecuador:  Final 
Report.  By  Marshall  H.  Saville.  1910. 
$25.00. 

CONTRIBUTIONS  FROM  THE  MUSEUM 

OF  THE  AMERICAN  INDIAN, 

HEYE  FOUNDATION 

Vol.  1 

No.  1:  Lucayan  Artifacts  from  the  Bahamas. 
By  Theodoor  de  Booy .  Reprinted  from  Amer. 
Anthropol.,  Vol.  15,  1913,  No.  1.  50c. 

No.  2:  Precolumbian  Decoration  of  the  Teeth 
in  Ecuador,  with  some  Account  of  the  Oc- 
currence of  the  Custom  in  other  parts  of 
North  and  South  America.  By  Marshall  H. 
Saville.  Reprinted  from  Amer.  Anthropol., 
Vol.  15, 1913,  No.  3.  50c. 

No.  3:  Certain  Kitchen-middens  in  Jamaica. 
By  Theodoor  de  Booy.  Reprinted  from 
Amer.  Anthropol.,  Vol.  15,  1913,  No.  3.  (Re- 
printed, 1919.)  50c. 

No.  4:  Porto  Rican  Elbow-stones  in  the  Heye 
Museum,  with  discussion  of  similar  objects 
elsewhere.  By  J.  Walter  Fewkes.  Reprinted 
from  Amer  Anthropol.,  Vol.  15,  1913,  No.  3. 
50c. 


INDIAN  NOTES 
AND   MONOGRAPHS 


A  SERIES  OF  PUBLICA- 
TIONS RELATING  TO  THE 
AMERICAN  ABORIGINES 


TWO  ANTLER  SPOONS  FROM 
ONTARIO 

BY 

ALANSON  SKINNER 


NEW  YORK 

MUSEUM  OF  THE  AMERICAN   INDIAN 

HEYE  FOUNDATION 

1920 


IMfe  UNIVERSITY  LIBRARY 
UNIVEftSllf  OF  CAUFORWA,  SAN 
1  "   ""I A.  CALIFORNt' 


THIS  series  of  INDIAN  NOTES  AND  MONO- 
GRAPHS is  devoted  primarily  to  the  publica- 
tion of  the  results  of  studies  by  members  of 
the  staff  of  the  Museum  of  the  American 
Indian,  Heye  Foundation,  and  is  uniform 
with  HISPANIC  NOTES  AND  MONOGRAPHS, 
published  by  the  Hispanic  Society  of 
America,  with  which  organization  this 
Museum  is  in  cordial  cooperation. 


TWO  ANTLER  SPOONS 
FROM  ONTARIO 

BY 

ALANSON  SKINNER 


TWO  ANTLER  SPOONS  FROM 
ONTARIO 

BY  ALANSON  SKINNER 


HE  two  carved  antler  spoons  shown 
in  the  accompanying  plate  were 
obtained  from  graves  in  Atti- 
wandaron  or  Neutral  cemeteries, 
a  having  been  discovered  at  Saint  Davids, 
Ontario,  and  b  in  a  burial  ground  on  the 
shore  of  Lake  Medad,  in  Wentworth  county, 
near  Hamilton,  Ontario.  Bone  and  antler 
spoons,  while  known  in  New  York  and 
Ontario  as  products  of  the  western  Iro- 
quoian  tribes,  are  by  no  means  common, 
since  the  natives  preferred  spoons  of  wood 
and  bark,  or  even  used  the  unworked  shells 
of  freshwater  clams. 

A  few  bone  and  antler  spoons  from  New 
York  and  Canada  have  been  illustrated, 
but  all  are  squat  and  broad-bowled,  like 


INDIAN    NOTES 


ANTLER  SPOONS 


the  wooden  forms  still  in  use  among  the 
Iroquois.  The  specimens  here  shown,  on 
the  contrary,  are  long  and  slender,  and  the 
handle  of  a,  from  its  wavy  outline,  may 
have  been  intended  to  represent  a  snake. 
Fig.  b  is  also  neatly  carved,  and  in  beauty 
surpasses  any  similar  objects  in  the  col- 
lections of  the  museums  of  either  Canada 
or  New  York. 

Consul!:  BE.VUCHAMP,  William  M.,  Horn  and 
Bore  Imp'ements  of  the  New  York  Indians, 
J'ullftin  5'i.  Xev<  York  Stale  Museum,  p.  315, 
Albany, 1902. 


INDIAN    NOTES 


UC  SOUTHERN  REGIONAL  LIBRARY  FACILITY 


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No.  5:  Note  on  the  Archaeology  of  Chiriqui. 
By  George  Grant  MacCurdy.  Reprinted 
from  Amer.  Anthropol.,  Vol.  15.  1913,  No.  4. 
50c. 

No.  6:  Petroglyphs  of  Saint  Vincent,  British 
West  Indies.  By  Thomas  Huckerby.  Re- 
printed from  Amer.  Anthropol.,  Vol.  16,  1914. 
No.  2.  50c. 

No.  7:  Prehistoric  Objects  from  a  Shell-heap 
at  Erin  Bay,  Trinidad.  By  J.  Walter  Fewkes. 
Reprinted  from  Amer.  Anthropol.,  Vol.  16, 
1914,  No.  2.  50c. 

No.  8:  Relations  of  Aboriginal  Culture  and  En- 
vironment in  the  Lesser  Antilles.  By  J. 
Walter  Fewkes.  Reprinted  from  Butt.  Amer. 
Geogr.  Soc.,  Vol.  46,  1914,  No.  9,  50c. 

No.  9:  Pottery  from  Certain  Caves  in  Eastern 
Santo  Domingo,  West  Indies.     By  Theodoor 
de  Booy.    Reprinted  from  Amer.  Anthropol.. 
Vol.  17,  1915,  No.  1.    50c. 
Vol.2 

No.  1 :  Exploration  of  a  Munsee  Cemetery  near 
Montague,  New  Jersey.  By  George  G.  Heye 
and  George  H.  Pepper.  1915.  $1.00. 

No.  2:  Engraved  Celts  from  the  Antilles.  By 
J.  Walter  Fewkes.  1915.  50c. 

No.  3:  Certain  West  Indian  Superstitions  Per- 
taining to  Celts.  By  Theodoor  de  Booy. 
Reprinted  from  Journ.  Amer.  Folk-Lore.  Vol. 
28,  No.  107,  1915.  50c. 

No.  4:  The  Nanticoke  Community  of  Dela- 
ware. By  Frank  G.  Speck.  1915.  $1.00. 

No.  5:  Notes  on  the  Archeology  of  Margarita 
Island,  Venezuela.  By  Theodoor  de  Booy. 
1916.  50c. 

No.  6:  Monolithic  Axes  and  their  Distribution 
in  Ancient  America.  By  Marshall  H.  Saville. 
1916.  50c. 


Vol.3 

Physical  Anthropology  of  the  Lenape  or  Dela- 
wares,  and  of  the  Eastern  Indians  in  Gen- 
eral. By  Ales  Hrdlicka.  (Bur.  of  Amer. 
Ethnol.,  Bull.  62,  1916,  with  added  title-page 
and  cover.)  $1.00. 

Vol.4 

No.  1 :  The  Technique  of  Porcupine-Quill  Dec- 
oration among  the  North  American  Indians. 
By  William  C.  Orchard.  1916.  $1.00. 

No.  2:  Certain  Archeological  Investigations 
in  Trinidad,  British  West  Indies.  By  Theo- 
door  de  Booy.  Reprinted  from  Amer.  An- 
thropol.,  Vol.  19,  1917,  No.  4.  50c. 

No.  3 :  The  Nacoochee  Mound  in  Georgia.  By 
George  G.  Heye,  F.  W.  Hodge,  and  George 
H.  Pepper.  1918.  $1.50. 

Vol.5 

No.  1 :  A  Letter  of  Pedro  de  Alvarado  Relating 
to  his  Expedition  to  Ecuador  [15341.  By 
Marshall  H.  Saville.  1917.  50c. 

No.  2:  The  Diegueno  Ceremony  of  the  Death- 
Images.  ByE.  H.Davis.  1919.  50c. 

No.  3:  Certain  Mounds  in  Haywood  County, 
North  Carolina,  By  George  G.  Heye.  Re- 
printed from  Holmes  Anniversary  Volume, 
1916.  1919.  50c. 

No.  4:  Exploration  of  Aboriginal  Sites  at 
Throgs  Neck  and  Clasons  Point,  New  York 
City.  By  Alanson  Skinner.  1919.  $1.00. 

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MUSEUM  OP  THE  AMERICAN  INDIAN,  HEYE 

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